Pain Relief Network

Pain Relief Network"Law enforcement is clamping down on doctors who prescribe high doses of the most powerful and dangerous pain killers. Is this protecting patients - or hurting them?

As Siobhan Reynolds, president of the patient advocacy group the Pain Relief Network sees it, chronic pain sufferers know what has worked for them in the past and they should be allowed to risk addiction if they so choose. ''Pain,'' says Reynolds, ''is an opioid deficiency syndrome.'' The idea of doctors debating whether to prescribe opioids is as absurd to her as ''diabetes specialists arguing about whether or not to use insulin.''